In this exclusive VMblog video interview as part of our VMware Explore US 2023 coverage, we speak with Joel Stocker, Director of Product Marketing at ControlUp, an industry leader in Digital Employee Experience (DEX) management. Watch as we learn more about ControlUp and their technology. ControlUp helps IT resolve desktop issues faster, prevent tickets, and reduce spend by delivering a Digital Employee Experience (DEX) Management Fabric built for IT teams struggling with troubleshooting complex workspaces, support tickets, and flat budgets. With ControlUp, organizations minimize time spent troubleshooting with context-rich data and reporting, proactively identify problems while automating solutions before tickets are submitted, and consolidate tools into a single, easy-to-use web app. During this interview, Stocker provides a deeper dive into ControlUp, and talks about how it is considered unique and differentiated in the market. He also describes the company's partnership with VMware and what it looks like, how they work with VMware Horizon, and also details the problems that they solve for VMware users and implementations. Stick around to the end and watch a demo! Don't miss this exclusive interview. You can also visit: https://www.controlup.com Join their growing community: https://www.controlupcommunity.com/ Jump straight in: ↪️ 0:00 - Intro 0:18 - Welcome to Joel Stocker, Director of Product Marketing at ControlUp 0:39 - Background on ControlUp 2:14 - How does ControlUp partner with VMware? 3:36 - What problems do you solve? And what do you offer VMware users? 6:12 - Providing a deeper dive into the ControlUp solution 11:09 - What makes ControlUp unique and differentiated in the market? 14:04 - What themes and trends in 2023/2024 is ControlUp interested in? 15:56 - Demo 22:03 - Wrap up ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xtgYBV5iV0c

In this episode of the VMblog Expert Video Interview Series, we are joined by Yan Ness, the CEO of VergeIO. Watch this video interview as we learn more about VergeIO. The company's VergeOS software goes beyond HCI and converges the entire data center (virtualization, networking, and storage) into a cohesive data center operating system. The result is an ultraconverged infrastructure (UCI), that unifies the underlying hardware into a highly scalable global resource pool. Yan Ness gives an overview of the company, and then, immediately dives in to explain what Ultraconverged Infrastructure is all about and why organizations need it. Ness also explains the differences between Ultraconverged Infrastructure and Hyperconverged Infrastructure, as well as its benefits. Watch and find out how it can scale up or down, and understand how customers have used it to help with ransomware and other use cases. Learn more about VergeIO at their website: https://www.verge.io Don't forget to watch, read and follow VMblog: Website: https://vmblog.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmblog LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vmblog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VMblogcom/ Jump straight in: ↪️ 0:00 - Intro 0:16 - Yan Ness, CEO of VergeIO 0:30 - Overview on VergeIO 1:52 - Explaining Ultraconverged Infrastructure 5:42 - Differences between UCI and HCI 8:04 - Benefits to Ultraconverged 10:49 - Scaling up and scaling down 13:24 - Ransomware and data de-duplication 15:51 - Discussing three ideal use cases 18:16 - Wrap Up ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EjFzKtLbb8k

IGEL Technology is one of the world's leading thin client vendors, one of America's fastest-growing thin client brands and Europe’s No. 1 in Linux-based thin clients. Beyond thin client devices, IGEL's Universal Desktop Converter 2 (UDC2) software provides a highly effective alternative to traditional thin client hardware. The software is installed as the operating system on PCs, notebooks and select thin clients, and turns the hardware into a powerful software-based and universally deployable thin client allowing secure access to almost all centralized IT infrastructures. VMblog visited with the IGEL Technology team during Citrix Synergy 2016 and had a great conversation with them about their solutions Find out more by watching this video interview. ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9wx7aDifrk

Ahead of Failover Conf (https://www.failoverconf.io) -- Gremlin's annual conference dedicated to reliability -- VMblog spoke with James Thigpen, Director of Engineering at Gremlin, the Chaos Engineering company founded by former Netflix and Amazon engineers. Quick background. Gremlin is the world’s first hosted Chaos Engineering service with a mission to help build a more reliable internet, and prevent costly and reputation-damaging outages. Its failure-as-a-service platform empowers engineers to build more resilient systems through safe experimentation. Watch this video interview to learn more as Thigpen discusses his move to Gremlin, and details some of the main challenges to people adopting Chaos Engineering more broadly. Gremlin has also made a major announcement around an update to its platform, treating services as a first class citizen. Thigpen double clicks and provides more details about what this means exactly and that can benefit engineering teams. Find out more about Gremlin at their website: https://www.gremlin.com Check out the Gremlin free plan here: https://www.gremlin.com/getstarted/ Don't forget to watch, read and follow VMblog: Website: https://vmblog.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/vmblog LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/vmblog Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/VMblogcom/ Jump straight in: ↪️ 0:00 - Intro 0:25 - Introducing James Thigpen, Director of Engineering at Gremlin 0:44 - Recently joined Gremin 1:31 - Why did you join? Were you doing Chaos Engineering while at Rover? 2:31 - Main challenges to adopting Chaos Engineering 4:31 - Major Gremlin Update - How does it benefit engineering teams? 6:36 - Service oriented view - does it make it easier for developers to do Chaos Engineering? 8:24 - Reliability testing - Developers vs. Ops 11:10 - Wrap up ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqlN_ZM7a2s